Apache setup help

[Tim Wunder]

On Tuesday 26 August 2003 5:54 pm, someone claiming to be Tom Condon wrote:
<snip>
>
> Thanks.  The syntax is OK according to apachectl.  I set:
> ServerName spyder.condonia.org
> User webuser
> Group webgroup
> DocumentRoot /web/site.burps/htdocs
>
> This URL contains the same HTML code that I'm working with:
> http://www.eskimo.com/~tomc/BURPS.html
> so it looks pretty clean as far as HTML goes.  I do not have
> an index.html doc in that directory.
>
> Having made these changes to apache.conf I restarted apache,
> then tried again.  I get:
> ******************************************************
> Forbidden
> You don't have permission to access /BURPS.html on this
> server.
> ---------------------------------------
> Apache/1.3.27 Server at spyder.condonia.org Port 80
>
> ******************************************************
> This happens when I access it either through the name or the
> IP.  I checked, and changed all of the /web directories and
> files to be owned by webuser:webgroup.  No effect.  I know
> better than to leave it that way, and will be changing it
> back momentarily.  The config file has no "Allow" or "Deny"
> in any combination of cases.
>
> Next step?

What are the permissions on the directory:
web/site.burps/htdocs 
and the file:
web/site.burps/htdocs/BURPS.html 

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